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shaking your head. That is horrible. That is all from the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to BBC Points West. Our main story tonight: A detective | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
superintendent who broke the rules keeps his job. His actions meant a | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
killer couldn't be charged with the murder of a second young woman. Her | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
parents have different reactions. It is a joke. The police are a law unto | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
themselves. Gross misconduct, anybody else would have been | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
sacked. They have done themselves a big favour because he is a | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
superhero. We'll be asking an MP whether justice has been done. | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
The other stories in the news tonight: A young man dies after | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
falling into a river in Bath. The police see him drown but it's too | :00:55. | :01:03. | |
dangerous to jump in. It is very cold, fast flowing, and I am certain | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
that if our officers had gone in they would have found themselves in | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
difficulty very quickly. The boy who died after heart surgery | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
at Bristol Children's Hospital. The coroner speaks of missed | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
opportunities to help him. And that's one way of getting out of | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
your homework. The schoolboy who walked to the South Pole flies home. | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
Good evening. A detective from Wiltshire who led a double murder | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
investigation has been told he can keep his job despite breaking police | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
rules. Steve Fulcher's been found guilty of gross misconduct for not | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
cautioning Christopher Halliwell three years ago when the suspect | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
took him to the bodies of two women he admitted killing. It meant one of | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
the murder charges, relating to Becky Godden, had to be dropped | :01:50. | :01:59. | |
I cannot believe it. That is fantastic. The mother of murder | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
victim Becky Godden. Elated Detective Superintendent Steve | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
Fulcher gets to keep his job. They have done themselves a big favour | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
because he is one superhero and when he gets his medal I am going to pin | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
it on his chest because if it had not been for him I would never have | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
known about Beckie. Steve Fulcher made mistakes during a murder hunt | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
in Swindon in 2011. He arrested taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, who | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
started to confess. Taking Steve Fulcher first to the body of Sian | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
O'Callaghan. Then to the place he'd buried Becky Godden years earlier. | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
But Halliwell wasn't cautioned, so his confessions didn't stand up in | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
court. He did eventually plead guilty to murdering Sian O'Callaghan | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
and was sentenced to 25 years. But without evidence, the case against | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
Becky Godden was dropped. He broke the rules but he broke them for good | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
reason and I stand by him and I will continue to stand by him. I have | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
always said he did what he did to bring two girls back to their | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
family. View is not shared by her former husband. They are a law unto | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
themselves. This is the biggest pitch up I have come across. He is | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
furious that his daughter's murderer was never brought to court. He | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
cannot believe that the Detective Superintendent has kept his job | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Gross misconduct, anybody else would have been sacked. There is a new | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
team on this case, my trust is gone. The Chief Constable said it has been | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
an emotive issue and points out murder investigations are often | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
fast`paced and admits there is national concern about the integrity | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
of the police and he expects the highest possible standards from his | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
officers. He went on to pay respects to the families. The rules of arrest | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
are being looked at. It might be that one day officers will be able | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
to interview suspects on the road rather than in a police cell. Steve | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Fulcher was also guilty of gross misconduct in dealings with the | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
media, including the BBC. He said in a statement today that he wanted to | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
do the best for victims, their families and Wiltshire Police. And | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
he hoped to move on from this upsetting and stressful episode | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
We're joined now by the Swindon MP Robert Buckland, who's also a | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
barrister and is in Westminster tonight. He was asked to look into | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
the rules that police have to follow when they are dealing with suspects. | :04:43. | :04:52. | |
What have you concluded? I think that the law needs to keep pace with | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
technology. In serious investigations such as this one | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
there should be a variation to the code of practice to allow interviews | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
to take place other than in the police station. Then for flexibility | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
to be built into the system with the use of technology so that we can | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
rely upon that evidence, that it can be safe evidence and admissible in | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
court. It would have covered the particular circumstances of this | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
case and I think we need to keep pace with technology. Were the | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
judges more concerned in this case with legal process than about the | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
rights of a murdered woman? The judge had to follow the law as it | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
applied and I think she did know quite properly. `` she did so. The | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
disciplinary proceedings which concluded had to be followed. The | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
overall result and the reinstatement of that officer is a just result. Is | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
there any possibility charges might be brought against the suspect? The | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
investigation is still a live one but there is one person who has the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
answers and he is in prison for one murderer. Although the changes I | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
propose would apply to the future, the fact that this case is still | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
live should make that person think very carefully about the | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
consequences of his actions on the family who are left. In your opinion | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
it is too late for these changes to be backdated as it were in this | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
case? Yes, I think so. You have to look to the future. I know that the | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
mother is thinking positively and I am supporting her in her campaign to | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
get the law changed so that this situation does not have to arise | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
again. A care worker has pleaded guilty to | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
raping three vulnerable women in a care home in Gloucestershire. Colin | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Stokes, who's from Dursley, admitted the attacks on the women over a 16 | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
month period. Our Gloucestershire reporter joins us now from | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
Gloucester Crown Court. Many people will be shocked by this case. Yes, | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
this is the had a wing and difficult and emotional case for everybody | :07:21. | :07:21. | |
involved. `` a Halloween. He admitted that he reaped three | :07:22. | :07:37. | |
vulnerable women in his care. Some of the relatives of the victims were | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
in court to see Colin Stokes admits his crimes. We have spoken to the | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
mother of one of them who said she was pleased he had admitted his | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
crimes because they do not have to go through a trial but she said | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
seeing him in the dock was awful. Her daughter was the youngest | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
victim, she has in her early 30s but has the mental age of six. She | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
cannot talk, dress or wash herself properly and needs rain that `` | :08:02. | :08:12. | |
round`the`clock care. A person from social services came out and told us | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
my daughter had been sexually abused. It was one hell of a | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
surprise. It came out of the blue. One hell of a bombshell. You cannot | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
get your head around that. She is so vulnerable. I had to trust every | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
member of staff that nothing would happen to her. It is horrendous I | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
would have gone straight down and killed him, no hesitation. You | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
cannot physically think what he has done to her. You think you have it | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
all wrong. Something like that cannot happen to heart and the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
others. What have other people been saying? The big question is how was | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
Colin Stokes able to get away with these crimes over these honourable | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
people who should have trusted him? The council including the care home | :09:05. | :09:14. | |
have `` the council have issued this statement. | :09:15. | :09:37. | |
A strong statement from the County Council about the future of the care | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
provider. I tried to speak to the manager but they were not available. | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
We are chasing them. Colin Stokes will be back in March to be | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
sentenced and between now and then the judge will be watching video | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
interviews with the victims before he makes up his mind about how long | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
the inevitable jail term will be. Police searching a stretch of river | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
in Bath where a man was seen struggling and calling for help say | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
they've now found a body. The man was seen in the water early this | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
morning, but officers say it was too dangerous to get to him. | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Rescue teams had been searching the River Avon since the early hours of | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
this morning. A young man had been seen struggling in the freezing | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
water. The police say they could see and hear him. But they couldn't | :10:25. | :10:33. | |
reach him. It is very difficult They had to make a very difficult | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
decision. The officers did not go into the water and that was the | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
right decision. It is very cold very fast flowing, and I am certain | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
that if the officers had gone in they would have found themselves in | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
difficulty very quickly. An RAF helicopter was also brought in to | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
help search the fast flowing water. But it wasn't until midday, eight | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
hours after the man disappeared that a body was found. About 5am | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
this morning I was aware of the helicopter hovering and Ireland did | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
was some distance away. I realised it was probably larger than a normal | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
police helicopter. A helicopter was flying around at my partner heard it | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
when he got up at 630 AM. We thought something was going on. We found out | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
that yet another person seems to have apparently vanished into the | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
water. New rails have been put in place along this stretch of water | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
because there have been a number of recent deaths. The police set | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
remains an open and dangerous stretch of river. They are trying to | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
work out how this young man ended up in the water in the early hours of | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
this morning. The police say they now know who the man is and are | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
contacting his family. An inquest into the death of a | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
four`year`old boy who had heart surgery in Bristol ruled today there | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
were missed opportunities in his care, but there was no gross | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
negligence. Sean Turner died at the Children's Hospital two years ago. | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
Sean had suffered complications after surgery. His family maintain | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
he should have been in a high dependency bed, rather than on Ward | :12:15. | :12:30. | |
32. He was very dehydrated and he was | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
demanding drinks and he was only allowed ten millimetres of fluid. He | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
was grabbing the tissues and sucking the water from them. He kept saying, | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
clean my teeth, mummy, because he wanted to suck the water out of the | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
toothbrush. Eventually they put a fluid back up but it was too little, | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
too late. For Sean Turner's parents, hearing evidence over the past nine | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
days have brought back haunting memories. He developed a | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
life`threatening blood clot after surgery, a complication which could | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
have been avoided according to one expert haematologist at this week's | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
inquest. Sean died after spending weeks on Ward 32. His family said | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
they were misled, believing it had a high dependency unit. The Coroner | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
said there were missed opportunities in the treatment of Sean after his | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
operation. One was about the management of his blood. She | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
referred to the expert haematologist who said for many days they didn't | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
check levels of anti coagulation and that may have prevented him from | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
developing this clot. The other was in failing to offer him another type | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
of operation to reduce the blood flow in his heart, to lower his | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
blood pressure. But she said there was no gross negligence in his care. | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
We believe we could still have shone and we have to live with that, those | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
missed opportunities to have him. Since Sean's death, changes have | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
been made at Ward 32, but today the chief doctor at the Trust | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
apologised. We feel deeply sorry about shone's best and want to take | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
every opportunity to take every opportunity to learn from this to | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
prevent a similar happening full is It was three weeks after Sean died | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
that another child, seven`year`old Luke Jenkins, also died after being | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
treated on Ward 32. The Coroner said there was no gross negligence in his | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
care. But this will not be the end of the story for the Children's | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
Hospital. His family are also taking legal action along with several new | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
cases that have just come to light. We have not seen enough evidence to | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
persuade us the lessons have been learned. There is a suspicion that | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
the trust was prepared to take unacceptable risk with children s | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
care until they were caught out One of them involves the death of baby | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Lacey Poton in July. The family of the four`month`old claim she was | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
discharged from Ward 32 a day after an operation when Lacey was | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
vomiting. This is a normal picture of my daughter. This is a picture | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
when she was discharged from the hospital. She looks really pale Her | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
chest is tightening. The hospital said doctors did not expect a heart | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
attack to happen after she was discharged. An inquest will be heard | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
later in the year. Tonight the CQC said they will continue to monitor | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
the hospital. If there was anything that gave them cause for concern | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
they would take swift action. Homeowners on the Somerset Levels | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
are being told to prepare for further flooding tomorrow. The Met | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
Office has issued an amber warning for heavy rain overnight with plenty | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
more expected over the weekend. The Environment Agency has also upped | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
its warning, meaning the flooding is expected to worsen. So how much rain | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
is anticipated? Ian has been looking closely at the forecast. It sounds | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
as if there could be more problems in Somerset. It is looking highly | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
likely. A yellow warning has been raised to Amber specifically for the | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
Somerset Levels. Rain would normally not warrant a warning, a 30% chance | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
of 20 millimetres, but because of the existing sensitivities that is | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
why the warning has been raised to amber. We have another repeat | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
performance on Sunday. More later. And of course Ian will have a full | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
forecast later in the programme and we'll be reporting from the Levels | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
tomorrow night. New figures have revealed more | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
complications with the badger cull. The two pilot culls in | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
Gloucestershire and Somerset were set up to see if killing badgers by | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
controlled shooting could be done "safely, humanely and effectively". | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
But the government's own figures reveal only a quarter of the badgers | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
were shot in the open by a marksman. More were shot after being trapped | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
in cages. Are incredibly proud. To share a | :17:03. | :21:33. | |
room and a ceremony with the other great names of the game, very proud. | :21:34. | :21:48. | |
The Bristol teenager who last week became the youngest person ever to | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
reach the South Pole has flown home. Lewis Clark is only 16. Andrew plant | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
went to meet him at Heathrow airport. 48 days on the coldest | :22:06. | :22:15. | |
continent in the world. A warm welcome for them is Clark, now back. | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
It is more than seven weeks since he seen his family. This schoolboy took | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
a break from his GCSEs to what his way into the history books. Before | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
leaving he was in double meals and put on three stone. Since he has | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
been away, he has lost the whole lot. 27 kilos. You have lost that? | :22:37. | :22:49. | |
Oh, my God! I am so proud. I just want to hear the stories about how | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
difficult it was. I'm sure there were times when he was desperate to | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
stop. And how he kept going, to hear about that, it was amazing. | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
Incredibly proud. He arrived at the South Pole on Saturday. Six weeks | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
and six days of solid walking, fighting temperatures of minus 0. | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
It is the most difficult thing I have ever done and it may be the | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
most difficult thing I will ever do. The hardest time was right at the | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
end, I was completely knackered It was almost sad to get back because | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
it has taken up so much of my life for the past two or three years It | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
is the goal that has always been there and everything has been going | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
towards it. My GCSEs are the first priority. Along the way he has kept | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
in touch via satellite. Speaking to school friends. His challenge has | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
meant more than one sleepless night for his family. No word on what is | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
next for this intrepid teenager looking forward to his first night | :24:00. | :24:11. | |
at home in almost two months. The latest addition to the Royal | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
Family has got a name. Zara Phillips and make Tindall had a little girl | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
on Friday. The early betting was for the couple to decide on a | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
traditional men likely Tory award and, however the Queen's fourth | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
great`grandchild will be called Mia Grace. A photograph is expected to | :24:34. | :24:44. | |
be released in the next few days. You cannot shorten that. | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
An amber warning on the Somerset Levels and rain expected. | :24:51. | :25:02. | |
You have just done the forecast Tomorrow is not looking particularly | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
good. It is going to be changes in the amounts of rain. The rainfall | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
amounts will not be torrential. If it had been any other day you would | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
wonder what the fuss was about. Day after day there is quite a lot to | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
make a fuss about on the Somerset Levels. That is why the Met Office | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
have raised the alert to amber for Friday and Sunday specifically for | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
the Somerset Levels. 30% chance it could get close to 20 millimetres. | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
Sunday we are looking at greater amounts of rain. The rest of you | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
with the exception of northern parts of Gloucestershire are under a | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
yellow warning for Friday but for Sunday that is for the whole of the | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
region and is pretty much the whole of the British Isles. That will be | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
toned down as we get more detail. At the moment it is a largely dry | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
picture and it will stay that way for the first part of the night | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
before this band of rain brings in subtropical air which is bringing | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
moisture. A complex structure of warm fronts embedded. There will be | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
a movement of the heavy rain to the south`east. By the end of Friday, | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
the last of the rain has not cleared away, so the whole day will be wet. | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Already we are seeing showery outbreaks of rain through parts of | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
Devon. It will take a while for those to start to die out. As it | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
marches across, it will turn heavier, and around daybreak and the | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
start of the rush hour, Western and southwestern areas will be seeing | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
moderately heavy rain by then and the temperatures will be dropping to | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
two or three degrees Celsius. Tomorrow, a wet start. Some of these | :27:02. | :27:10. | |
will be slightly drier patches. Do not take that too literally. It will | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
be tricky to pin down the exact amounts of rain. It looks | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
bothersome. Temperatures will be mild. Sunday is the next focus of | :27:23. | :27:31. | |
attention. You are already putting that on | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
Twitter. We will see you at 10pm. Goodbye. | :27:38. | :27:54. | |
A star will be born on The Voice 2014! | :27:55. | :28:17. |